Harness-saddle.



c. H. GRINGS, HARNESS SADDLE.

AEPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 6,1910.

1,083,738. Patented Jan.6,1914.

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CASPER I-I. GRINGS, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

HARNESS-SADDLE.

noeeyzes.

Specieation of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

Application led September 6, 1910. Serial No. 580,772.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CASPER l-l. Grimes, citizen of the United States, residing at Waterloo, in the county of Blackhawk and State of owa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness-Saddles, of which the following is a specilication.

My invention has relation to harness saddles and the leading thought is to provide means for conveniently attaching and detaching the harness skirts in jockey plates whereby they will be rigidly held and adapted to be readily removed.

To this end my invention consists in a jockey plate provided with means forming a part thereof and adapted to both clasp and pierce the skirt from opposite sides and hold the skirt of such grasp by the aid of the saddle terret.

The manner in which I accomplish these objects will be fully described in the following specification when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying the same and forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one side of a harness saddle with my invention attached. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal and vertical section of the pad and part of the yoke. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the open jockey plate, and Fig. 4 is a similar view of the cover, inverted, for the cckey plate.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each lof the figures.

In the drawings, 2 designates the yoke, 4 the pad bottom, 5 the burr-piece or housing and 6 the terret. Upon the burr-piece 5 is secured the open jockey plate 8, which consists of a flat body made of metal turned up on the sides for a short distance at one end, which sides form guards 12 to hold the skirt from any sidewise movement. These guards are connected together at the lower ends of their outer edges by a metal strap or loop 14. The open jockey plate 8 is provided with screw openings 15 and 16 through which are inserted screws 18 and 20 by which the plate is secured to the bur-piece or housing and is also provided with an opening 22 through which the shank of the terret 6 passes. Near the screw 2O the plate is slightly bent or curved at 24 and near the bend is a rectangular opening 25 for locking and hinge purposes hereinafter to appear. Centrally of the plate and between the openings 15 and 22 is rigidly set a spud 26 which extends upwardly to nearly the cover and preferably tapers from the bottom to the top, which spud is adapted to engage an opening in the skirt from the under side.

The cover plate 30 of the jockey consists of a metal plate bent into a slight curve along the sides at 32 with a tongue 34 at one end and a locking Vhinge catch 35 at the other end, which is adapted to engage the yoke 2 in the opening 36 over the bar 38 and also to engage the plate 8 in the opening 25 and serves not only to lock the cover 3() at that end onto the yoke, but also serves as a hinge to provide a flexible saddle. Near the outer end of the tongue 34 there is fixed a spud 37 similar to the spud 26 which is adapted to engage the skirt from the upper side at a short distance outward from the engagement of the skirt from the under side by the spud 26.

The skirt 40 is provided with two openings or holes 42 and 44. The opening 42 eX- tends upwardly through or nearly through the skirt and preferably tapers from the bottom upwardly and is of such size as to readily receive the spud 26. rlhe opening 44 extends from the top downwardly through theI skirt and is of sufficient size to easily receive the spud 37.

rllhe manner of assembling and operating my device is substantially as follows: The open jockey plate 8 is secured to the burpiece 5 by the screws 18 and 20 through the openings 15 and 16. Then the yoke 2 is placed upon the plate 8 with its opening 36 nearly registering with the opening 25 in the plate 8. The operator then inserts the catch 35 of the cover 30 through the opening 36 and through the opening 25 in the plate 8 with the point underneath the curve portion 24 where it yieldingly holds the one end of the cover, and serves to hinge the yoke and jockey plate together. The skirt 40 is inserted under the loop 14 sufficiently far to allow the spud 26 to come into engagement with the opening 42. rllhen the operator presses down the cover 30 and forces the spud 37 down through the opening M in the skirt until it rests upon the screw 18. rlhe screw 45 of the terret 6 is passed through the opening 33 in the cover 30, through the opening 22 in the open jockey plate 8, through the burspiece 5 and forces down the cover 30 upon the skirt and the spud 37 down through the skirt into 'opening 42 in the skirt. this manner it- Will be seen that the skirt is rigidly held between the loop 14 and the plate 8 -with the spud 37 piercing down through the skirt and the Spud 26 ypiercing up through `the skirt and holding the skirt wholly in ithe grasp of the jockey plate from oppositesides .and pierced by the spfuds lfrom l.opposite sides. It will also b e seen Ithat the spud 3,7 forced .against .the head ,of the screw 18 Will prevent .the screw .from becoming loose when in .constant 1use. Also it Will be seen ,that the pad Will be Vflexible .as the Inode .ofkholding the .skirt does ,not .interfere in .any manner with the hinge. It .Will further be observed that if the .terret should break, as sometimes occurs, l'the skirt would not drop .out Yor be liable to beccrne disengaged, since ,the Spud 26 projects underneath through .or ,nearly through the skirt and ,the spud 37 from .the :top .down through, and further .the :skirt is held .solely by the jockey plate, and the .strain is divided equally on .thespud yin .the open jockey y,plate allid vthe spud in .the cover .or hinge ,clamping ate.

p Having novv described my invention what I claim .and desire to secure l-by'Letters Patent is In a device of the character described, a jockey-plate -p-rov-ided With a transverse hinge groove, and having a bent tongue at one end and a transverse slot between the 'latter and the groove and a recess in its underside adjacent said slot, a loop at the oppositeendfof fthe jockey plate on the upper side thereof, flanges on opposite sides of the upper face of the `end `-adjacent l,the loop, Ia spud .on the upper face .of the plate between the loop ,and grooves., :the plate having 4a terret .opening gbetwfeen the spud ,and .groove, a yoke having .a Icross pin seated 4said groove, a .cover plate l.having a terret opening and a bent .tongue at .one vend .and vspucl at the other .end,hsaid bent .tongue rpassing through theslot in ,the jockey-plate and 'hav ing its Yend located in said .recess thereof, a terret passing ,through .the .,terret openings of the jockey and `cover plates., .and ,a .slrt clamped vbetween the cover and iockey plates and .penetrated ,by said spuds.

In .testimony whereof I ,a'fx `niy .signature in ,presenceofgtvvo `Witnesses.

:CASPER H. @RINGS Witnesses; Y

M. M. CADY,

M. Noonan.

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